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Wilfred Owen: From humble cottage to dazzling tribute

The war poet Wilfred Owen was killed in northern France in November 1918 - in the final days of WWI. His last letter to his mother was written at the end of October in the cellar of a forester's house in the village of Ors.

That red-brick building has now been transformed into a work of art - neither museum nor memorial. For BBC Radio 4 Christine Finn met the British artist Simon Patterson, and went to see his startling white tribute to Owen's life and poetry.

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